Submissions by DCLXVI_1989 (Garrett Asa Hughes)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I just enjoy writing if my mind allows me to. Nothing serious.
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
Yesterday 7:02am
Yesterday 7:02am
Pure Gold
Stake a claim, hoping the border of metal rivets or wooden posts are upheld by the honor of those dumb enough to never second guess.
It's here my seeds will sprout to blades of grass, bordering the stream of consciousness, sharpened to the point.
I'll pan my golden dreams to spend nuggets of wisdom on the future.
I'll invest my hopes to balance my fears, rich with paranoia.
As the stranger walks upon the turf made mine, the shield will rise with voices.
Tunnel visions and silver veins.
Striking upon the rush of blood, the gravestone...
It's here my seeds will sprout to blades of grass, bordering the stream of consciousness, sharpened to the point.
I'll pan my golden dreams to spend nuggets of wisdom on the future.
I'll invest my hopes to balance my fears, rich with paranoia.
As the stranger walks upon the turf made mine, the shield will rise with voices.
Tunnel visions and silver veins.
Striking upon the rush of blood, the gravestone...
#historical
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SELF POEM
Published
19th Mar 2025 7:36am
19th Mar 2025 7:36am
Whispers...
I never meant for this silence
I never meant for this distance
A connection I've made awkward
Seems the flow of my existence
And I don't know how to type
Without feeling this pain
Whispers in the wind
With always thinking your name
I'm sorry it got this far
I want to bring it close
Juggling this new life
Like a jester who turned into a ghost
Still always on my mind
Through this chaos that has been life
Still wondering all the time
Thinking of what I could find
Because it isn't the end ...
I never meant for this distance
A connection I've made awkward
Seems the flow of my existence
And I don't know how to type
Without feeling this pain
Whispers in the wind
With always thinking your name
I'm sorry it got this far
I want to bring it close
Juggling this new life
Like a jester who turned into a ghost
Still always on my mind
Through this chaos that has been life
Still wondering all the time
Thinking of what I could find
Because it isn't the end ...
#confessional
#SelfReflection
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SELF POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2025 8:47am
3rd Mar 2025 8:47am
Myself
Cold ...and empty
Wet concrete beneath my soles
Inhaling smoke, exhale regret
Looking back at the day that we met
Bold ...in plenty
Damp sidewalk beneath my toes
For all of my woes to lament
Don't think I know myself yet
It hurts to stand
But I can't lay down
How can broken hands,
Lift this crown?
Told ...already
As I sit down upon the curb
Fold ...when I met me
As I lay down upon these words
Wet concrete beneath my soles
Inhaling smoke, exhale regret
Looking back at the day that we met
Bold ...in plenty
Damp sidewalk beneath my toes
For all of my woes to lament
Don't think I know myself yet
It hurts to stand
But I can't lay down
How can broken hands,
Lift this crown?
Told ...already
As I sit down upon the curb
Fold ...when I met me
As I lay down upon these words
#learning
#myself
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
21st Jan 2025 4:56am
21st Jan 2025 4:56am
Winter's Grip
With each arrow piercing through my depth
Pointing to the path of shallow breath
Quivering until the cold air met
Knocked loose until too has left
Footsteps of frost now lost
Frigid gasps soon lapsed
Circle into a mirth full of uncertain purples
Unfurled from icy lips
Cold words set out into the air
Stones to guide the warmth just laying there
The grip of eyes like arrows in their stare
As embers suffer forth toward unaware
Cataclysm masquerading
Extradition unabating
In an adventure unawaiting ...
Pointing to the path of shallow breath
Quivering until the cold air met
Knocked loose until too has left
Footsteps of frost now lost
Frigid gasps soon lapsed
Circle into a mirth full of uncertain purples
Unfurled from icy lips
Cold words set out into the air
Stones to guide the warmth just laying there
The grip of eyes like arrows in their stare
As embers suffer forth toward unaware
Cataclysm masquerading
Extradition unabating
In an adventure unawaiting ...
#winter
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Jan 2025 7:56am
6th Jan 2025 7:56am
Mist
In this rainy mist
I am remissed
To miss neglectful lips
A kiss that tastes like bliss
A tongue to dance my wish
In this morning fog
Where you are gone
I hold on to sweet songs
A wrong that feels like God
To sip on for so long
A religion lost
Though never found
Profound in its foundation
Personal holocaust
All left to rot
Founding trepidation
But as my face sits wet
A wish to bet
What's met and left
I sit with nostrils full of smoke
Alive and baring...
I am remissed
To miss neglectful lips
A kiss that tastes like bliss
A tongue to dance my wish
In this morning fog
Where you are gone
I hold on to sweet songs
A wrong that feels like God
To sip on for so long
A religion lost
Though never found
Profound in its foundation
Personal holocaust
All left to rot
Founding trepidation
But as my face sits wet
A wish to bet
What's met and left
I sit with nostrils full of smoke
Alive and baring...
#fiction
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Dec 2024 7:38am
25th Dec 2024 7:38am
Damp Concrete
Little boy with little joy
The past is cast
There's no rewind
Wild child exiled
The mom is gone
There's no more time
For here I sit on this wet ground
Wondering where my memories went
For what is left feels so profound
And what is found has left
Little time for me to find
Any depth for shallow breath
So long it seems
My dreams; so long
Stretching thin; long gone
Reminisce what it all meant
Temples pressed; depressed
Hindsight aced for each failed test
With stress that will...
The past is cast
There's no rewind
Wild child exiled
The mom is gone
There's no more time
For here I sit on this wet ground
Wondering where my memories went
For what is left feels so profound
And what is found has left
Little time for me to find
Any depth for shallow breath
So long it seems
My dreams; so long
Stretching thin; long gone
Reminisce what it all meant
Temples pressed; depressed
Hindsight aced for each failed test
With stress that will...
#emptiness
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
17th Jul 2024 10:48pm
17th Jul 2024 10:48pm
Artificial Unintelligence
Debating thoughts that aren't your own
Owned
Arguments on who has the better master
Wake of a disaster
Slaves who complain their chains are no longer shiny
Dull and whiny
Circles upon circles of political calamity
Voting again; insanity
Inaccuracies with agility
National learning disability
Blame the citizens for where we're at now
Looking how they bow down
Believing blindly in false proclamations
Stripped education
Unaware it's already gone
So long
A system...
Owned
Arguments on who has the better master
Wake of a disaster
Slaves who complain their chains are no longer shiny
Dull and whiny
Circles upon circles of political calamity
Voting again; insanity
Inaccuracies with agility
National learning disability
Blame the citizens for where we're at now
Looking how they bow down
Believing blindly in false proclamations
Stripped education
Unaware it's already gone
So long
A system...
#corruption
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Jun 2024 5:52pm
19th Jun 2024 5:52pm
Reaper
Stalk the hunter
Fallen prey
A game played in an endless maze
Walking hunted
Fall and pray
The same way against the grain
Scythe into the wheat
Blessed ergot
Sow what you reap
Delusional rot
Gone without a sound
Inhale
Then let it all out
On it's way down
In Hell
Without a doubt
Fan the flames
Sacred shadow
Predator restraint
Naked gallows
An empty rope
A waiting head
Sacrificial goat
Two coins for the dead
Spinal column broke ...
Fallen prey
A game played in an endless maze
Walking hunted
Fall and pray
The same way against the grain
Scythe into the wheat
Blessed ergot
Sow what you reap
Delusional rot
Gone without a sound
Inhale
Then let it all out
On it's way down
In Hell
Without a doubt
Fan the flames
Sacred shadow
Predator restraint
Naked gallows
An empty rope
A waiting head
Sacrificial goat
Two coins for the dead
Spinal column broke ...
#night
#nightmares
#shadows
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd May 2024 11:04pm
2nd May 2024 11:04pm
False Sense
A glimpse amidst the innocence
and all it has foretold-
The old no longer bold as they hold nothing more-
For lore before has sang a score
of everything we've lost-
Just to die off at the thought of the cost without attempt-
The ones who sung when they were young
Full of new ideals-
They feel the life that steals the light of what's often not real-
Rotten between the ears-
Forgotten then never here-
Convinced that since there's risk
it's recompensed with reward-
To fall upon that sword once more we cannot afford- ...
and all it has foretold-
The old no longer bold as they hold nothing more-
For lore before has sang a score
of everything we've lost-
Just to die off at the thought of the cost without attempt-
The ones who sung when they were young
Full of new ideals-
They feel the life that steals the light of what's often not real-
Rotten between the ears-
Forgotten then never here-
Convinced that since there's risk
it's recompensed with reward-
To fall upon that sword once more we cannot afford- ...
#rhyming
206 reads
2 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
30th Mar 2024 5:28am
30th Mar 2024 5:28am
Barabbas
Smoke fills my lungs
A fresh new ease
Exchanging my stress
For disease
To blind me of this plague within our streets
Free to be a slave and make ends meet
Puppeted by the corporate on a string
Toasting molotovs in these dreams
Until pitchforks rise to meet the beast
In exhale it all gets released
A fresh new ease
Exchanging my stress
For disease
To blind me of this plague within our streets
Free to be a slave and make ends meet
Puppeted by the corporate on a string
Toasting molotovs in these dreams
Until pitchforks rise to meet the beast
In exhale it all gets released
#PopCulture
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Mar 2024 2:22am
30th Mar 2024 2:22am
Warm-Up
Broken fingers grasp the concept
Knuckles cracked and bruised
I cannot beat this feeling
That I may lose
Sanity and friends
Together again
A web that spins
Old news
Shackled to hesitation
Inspiration lost her muse
I have the key within my sight
Shot down from my view
As I leave this place
Tripping within haze
Fast pace substantiates
But i forgot to lace my shoes
Knuckles cracked and bruised
I cannot beat this feeling
That I may lose
Sanity and friends
Together again
A web that spins
Old news
Shackled to hesitation
Inspiration lost her muse
I have the key within my sight
Shot down from my view
As I leave this place
Tripping within haze
Fast pace substantiates
But i forgot to lace my shoes
#PopCulture
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
29th Dec 2023 6:32pm
29th Dec 2023 6:32pm
Serenade
Sparrow sings behind my ear
Such cheer to hear
The Sun peaks out behind the grey clouds
Brightness so loud
Soon it disappears
The melody perches up so near
Bellows from it's little chest so proud
A joy to hear the sounds
My forgotten smiles mirrors
A wonderful moment all too sincere
The beauty of the moments all around
Happiness profound
Such cheer to hear
The Sun peaks out behind the grey clouds
Brightness so loud
Soon it disappears
The melody perches up so near
Bellows from it's little chest so proud
A joy to hear the sounds
My forgotten smiles mirrors
A wonderful moment all too sincere
The beauty of the moments all around
Happiness profound
#birds
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